Hey guys! It’s Shawna, correspondent from Without Bags, and I wanted to give you guys a little bit of a view of where we’re at. So, still on the postal boat in Norway, and absolutely lovely views. We’ve just stopped here in one of the little cities to pick up some mail, and pick up some cars. Apparently that’s one of the biggest transports up and down the coast here. Let’s walk around and give you guys a view off of the boat today.

So this is where we’re at. You can see some of the absolutely amazing, gorgeous views. The little houses are just adorable, with all the colors, so brightly painted. They use a lot of red here. Apparently red is to designate fish. Fishing boats or houses, or processing plants. Anything related to fish. Later today, for dinner, I’ll be having some of this. Dried salt fish, I think it’s called. I don’t know, it kind of looks yummy but it looks a little scary. Those jaws look scary, but, anyway. So I wanted to give you guys a little view of where we’re at. Some of these mountain ranges are absolutely phenomenal. You can see … just lovely.

It’s actually not all that bad here. As long as the wind isn’t blowing, it’s just really not all that cold. Here I am, I’m in my vest, of course, but collar open. Not quite as bad as when there was snow and it was really blowing the other day. I’ve actually been sitting out on the patio having some tea. It’s really, really rather quite nice, as long as there’s no wind. No breeze. But in the meantime, get to enjoy these absolutely fantastic and amazing views.

Hope you guys are having a great day, and look forward to, hopefully bringing you some video from the dogsleds later today. I’ll talk to you guys later. All right. Bye.

• Arctic Circle : At one point, when we were way up far north, in Tromso, and even Kirkenes in far north Norway, there was really no darkness.
• The difference between sunset and sunrise was about an hour and a half. I tried staying up one night to watch it but it was very difficult.
• There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness; all the other time it was daylight.

Hey, guys. It’s Shauna, a correspondent for Without Bags, coming to you live from our headquarters in Scottsdale. Today, I want to talk about the importance of the sunrise and the sunset. You never really realize how much the sunrise, especially coming from a super sunny place like Arizona, you never really realize how much sunrise and sunset are going to impact you. In the past trip, if you joined along with us, you can see all of our hysterical and historical videos on our Facebook Live channel for Without Bags.

You can see we were up, way, way, way up, actually in the Arctic Circle. At one point, when we were way up far north, Tromso and even Kirkenes in far north Norway, there was really no darkness. What we were looking at was an hour and a half. The difference between sunset and sunrise was about an hour and a half. Really, I was trying to watch it. I tried to stay up one night to watch it. There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness. Everything else was basically daylight. It kind of looked like this. Of course, it’s much brighter outside. We’ve got some tinting on the windows here, but yeah. There was only about 20 minutes of actual darkness. Everything else was really dusk, sunset and sunrise.

Really, what that did, especially for me, was it kind of threw me for a loop. I was having problems sleeping, having problems getting up at a regular time because my brain kept seeing sunlight. I wanted to stay awake, it was daytime, trying to stay in a sunlight. I remember reading an article years ago that talked about our cavemen ancestors way back when and how this is how we ended up with different sleep patterns is that some people were basically born to be night people and they evolved that way so that they would protect the rest of us, the daytime people, while we were sleeping. But the majority of people were daytime people because those are the people, the hunters and the gatherers, and we had to go out and find berries, and it was a lot easier to survive when there was light outside than it was in the dark.

I just found the whole arctic experience really super interesting. 20 minutes, I’m not so sure that I can deal. I don’t know how everybody lives up there. That’s got to be really tough to deal with only 20 minutes of dark. They definitely have some really thick curtains and shades that they would pull down over the windows. I thought I would share my little adventure. If you are rise by the sunrise and go to bed by the sunset kind of person, going that far into the arctic circle can be a little rough.

I would love to hear your feedback. If anybody else has been up that far north up in Tromso or Kirkenes, I would love to get your guys’ feedback on the videos, on the places we’ve gone to. I would love to get any of your commentaries, so definitely subscribe. We love it, and we are working on getting all of the blog posts over to the blog for our Without Bags channel. Hope you guys are having an amazing day, and we will talk to you later. All right, thanks, guys! Bye.

Hey guys, It’s Shauna, correspondent from Without Bags, live here from Kirkeness. Today we went king crab fishing, so sorry I couldn’t get you guys live video of the actual king crab fishing, so right now we are cooking the crab, and we’re about to eat, and so, so excited. In this really awesome place, I’m going to see if I can get you some video here. So that’s our king crab cooking right there, steaming. And this is where we’re at right now. Can see it’s absolutely gorgeous as usual, most of Norway, just lovely you know. All the good bits here. There’s our king crab cooking. And our fantastic captain.

And this is where we’re going to be eating today. Thank goodness for some hot chocolate, hot tea, they have beer, most important to go with king crab, so this has been one hell of a trip and this is a great way to cap off the last day in Norway. Yeah, you know what, this country is pretty amazing. And the people are really, really cool and super friendly, super nice. Definitely a little chilly if you can see all the snow that’s going by, but you know I can definitely highly, highly recommend coming to Norway. So if anybody’s looking for an awesome place to go, the Hurdy Gurden postal ship is what we were taking, going up and down the coast, and through all the fjords, and so if anybody’s looking to coming to Norway, this is awesome.

What I can tell you is that all of this weather is supposedly really, really strange for Norway, even this far north in Kirkeness. Typically by April 20th, it is spring and everything’s green and flowers and things are starting to bloom, and as you can tell, we’re still having blizzards and snow, you know, yay for climate change changing everything. Anyway, thanks so much guys and I hope you guys are having a great day, and I’ll be heading today or tomorrow, I spend one night here in Kirkeness and then back to Bergen in lower Norway, and from Bergen back to Dublin. So we’ll be a few more days in Dublin. And then Dublin/London, back to Phoenix. So after 7 weeks on the road, I’m super excited about heading home, but signing off at least for today, correspondent Shuana from Without Bags. I hope you guys are having an amazing day and where ever you are, love to hear from you guys what kind of trips and adventures you guys are taking. So, I’ll see you guys later. Thanks. Bye.

Hey guys, so we’re now at the music history museum in Trondheim so it should be pretty interesting, and we’ll give you guys a view of where we’re at. Apparently, the actual city of Trondheim was so bad in the summer time because they buried all the rich people in the church underneath the floor of church, and so the smell was really, really, really bad. It was a major fishing traffic area so all of the wealthy people would go out to the country side, which was all of maybe a 10 minute drive from the main city. We are now on somebody’s farm that has been converted to the museum, sorry to the music museum. We’re just getting some tags here.

Everybody received a little ticket? Yes, very well. The museum has two types one exhibition downstairs, which is a guided tour and the instrument collection, which is upstairs in the museum, and we will visit the instrument museum first, so follow me.

Down the hatchet.

Where we are now is actually an old farm, but now it’s a musical museum so right here is where they used to keep the pigs, and the instrument collection we call it the barn, because it was part of the old barn. For the guided tour we’ll meet here at ten to eleven. I will follow you up to the instrument collection and feel free to ask me any questions you have. My name is Natalie and I’m here for you, here to help you so follow me and we’ll go upstairs. We have an elevator, some of you prefer an elevator? No, so the others will wait and I’ll come back.

We can wait. I like the ducks they’re cute. Thank you. Really cool. God look at all of these. It’s not quite as modern as the modern instrument museum in Phoenix, but … Cool. The organ that we saw in that church actually had 10,000 pipes, it’s a German organ. Actually that’s pretty cool, so these are little pipes, little music pipes and they’ve got tags from all over the world. Germany, Romania, Estonia, Norway, Guatemala, Portugal, Denmark, it’s cool because I have seen these little like children’s pipes all over the world, everywhere I go.

For my violin friends, I’m calling out to one of our correspondence Avi Goodman, he’s an absolute fanatic for violins, circa the 1820’s. How cool, a harp piano, awesome. I don’t think you guys can see that but the strings on this thing are super thick, and all the way down to super, super fine, as it goes all the way back. How cool. Always loved harp music. Oh that’s cool, look number 124 there it’s like a viking ship harp. 124 let’s see, a bow harp out of Burma, that’s cool. I guess it’s not quite a viking ship if it’s from Burma but there you go.

Harpsichord, a virginal, the string of the virginal is plucked by a plectrum in the same way that a harpsichord. 

How beautiful, look at that inlay. More violins for my violin fanatics out there, these are from the 1760’s, 1790’s some of the inlay on these things is just beautiful.

We got stopped from filming. But owner of the farm was a rich Russian, a pianist, and they wanted to create a museum of instruments from all over the world.

Hey guys; it’s Shauna from Without Bags and sorry about the sound, I forgot my headset today. So we are walking down from the very lovely Fitzpatrick Castle, Dublin, let me see if I can get you … This is where we are, absolutely lovely, it’s an old castle at the top of the hill here in Killiney. And the smells are absolutely … Today all the trees are in bloom and the clouds are kind of dark and apparently, there’s been quite a bit of rain and it’s just lovely. I really do like Ireland, it’s one of my top three in the entire world. There is, Thailand is number one, New Zealand is number two and Ireland is number three but depending on the time of year, those things change. Thailand is great during the winter time when of course lovely, Arizona is lovely and Ireland is fantastic in the summer. So it’s the beginning of May and it’s just gorgeous here right now.

So we’re gonna go take a walk down into the town here and go see what’s going on. So figured I’d bring you guys along for the walk, so I hope you guys enjoy. Let me get the image turned around here. So one of the things that I absolutely love about Ireland is just you can walk everywhere. And this happens to be a very particular lovely park, this is south of Dublin, south of main city of Dublin, so technically, it’s like a 30 minute drive into the main bit of Dublin. And you know it’s just lovely, there’s huge parks, apparently Enya lives up here and Bono. I was making jokes with my driver to get me here that you know, “Oh maybe I’d run into them when we go to the pub later today.” But for now, just walking around, walking through the parks and stuffs, so figured I would bring you guys along for the walk

I don’t know if you guys can hear that but the wind and the breeze and everything going through all the plants. So we’re headed to Dalkey and this is Killiney Hill. So this is one of the big local parks and apparently when we get to the top of the hill, there’s an amazing view, so we are going to go climb up this hill here in a minute. I heard it will take peak. And see what’s going on at the top of this lovely park up here. Half the level is green. Oh look at all the little kids, I see a puppy dog. I have to admit, I’m very excited to come, go home to my two, my puppy dogs, but it’s hard to be here. Oh the flowers, you can smell all of it. That zipline looks like fun. Wonder what happened there, it’s kind of a strange way for a tree to be. Okay we may have to go play on that zipline when I come back. Looks like too much fun. A cool park.

Oh look at the two adorable little English Bulldogs, super cute. Playing fetch or something with the ball yeah? Hi. It’s a lovely Saturday for a visitor to be out with their dogs. I’m sure if we had grass like this, my dogs will be having a field day. I love that sound, I don’t know if you guys can hear that, it’s the wind blowing through the trees. Super happy puppies. Hello, hi. Oh, well I don’t know where we’re going but we’re going back down the hill. Maybe I took the wrong path up there. Look at some of these trees, branches are just amazing. Oh so it’s Japanese with root system like over there. Oh that’s the back of the hotel.  Old castle wall. Just trying to figure out where we are. I mean obviously, we’re here, I’m not sure where we came in. It is quite a big park, I didn’t realize it was quite that big. Well, we’ll keep going, we’ll see where this leads. Oh a statue.

Oh it looks like there’s a viewpoint coming, I’ve got to see what this is. Looks like it’s a view over the whole county. Did you see a bit of a sea there? How can you not find this anything but beautiful? Look at all those green. I suppose that’s what happens when you have a desert grow here. It’s just lovely.

So I was talking to the driver earlier today on the way in and talking about how long people live. In Norway apparently, they live quite a bit longer, a lot of it is exercise, being outside. Coming from the States, we don’t tend to do, I mean unless you’re into an activity, we tend to be pretty sedentary. Not really a whole lot of exercise, not really a whole lot of walking. Obviously being in this kind of environment, I can see why you’d want to walk. The view is breath-taking but I suppose, it’s like anything else, it’s all what you get used to and what you were raised into. I’m addicted to tennis personally and very much looking forward to getting back, playing some tennis. But yeah, this walking thing, there could be something to it. Coming up on a view guys. Oh my goodness, look at that. All right guys, I’m going to pause the live video feed, so that I can get some pictures from up here, but I’ll come back when I start walking again.